see a puffin eat a fish

ZoneTag mapping of New York didn’t work out so well but it was a lot of fun. I got to see my whole commute aboveground, all the stops downtown I never use. I also saw Cortland street, the stop right across the street from the World Trade Center, with a Richard Serra like sculpture in it’s blocked entrance.

Verdict: Of 16 points, 4 resolved to a zip code and two of those dropped me off in Berkeley!

Link to Presentation
Link to Paper

With Flash! Here’s something from a review:

The camera has an LED flash which you can turn on, off or set to automatic. Even when the flash is turned off, it will light just a bit (perhaps to prevent you from taking surreptitious shots of people). 6x digital zoom helps you get in close; handy given Nokia phones’ rather short 4.5mm focal length. To take a photo, just slide open the rear lens cover and the phone will launch the camera application.

From Jesse:

that’s incredible. i feel like i could follow your life all day. what’s the time interval?
can we guess which photo shows digital mike at the happiest point in his day? i want emotional association so that i can engage with your life – maybe you can just recommend a viewing soundtrack.

Which needs to be moved to WordPress so I will pay attention to it. I’m churning along with the WayMarker project. It went over well in class and now I am concentrating on visualization tools (if I end up getting in). Here are some questions that my data visualization tool can answer:

What was I looking at from 2-3pm last Friday?
Show me all the photos I ever took in Central Park.
Show me photos as a stream, one after another. Play back my life.
Play those same photos backwards, the “Momento” effect.
Show me all the photos from last Wednesday as one large collage.

Dennis had the great idea of making them hot links straight to photos, but that means I need to collect more data.

I got a great reaction, from the class and from the guest panel. Very encouraging.

After Jurgen’s presentation last week on python and the series 60, I borrowed a phone from clay and dove right in. I still don’t follow python that well. It’s supposed to have a very readable syntax but since i’m used to the unreadable kind reading python doesn’t come easily. Either way, i’ve figured out enough to be dangerous. I’ve written an app that takes a photo every couple of seconds and uploads it to my pc @ home via FTP. This bypasses any MMS charges. It also posts cellID and tower info to a mySQL database, not sure if that’s at all useful and if I can look that up anywhere. Dennis is going to lend me a gps dongle which will give me much more accurate readings.

Next step is to try to attach this to my body, well my clothes anyway. Anna is going to help me out and i’ll meet with Despina next week. Good stuff. I think i’m going to apply for Conflux too if I get my idea down.